Course Description: Meaningful Expression: The Language of Performance

What moves people? What makes a live performance effective? What inspires feeling and speaks meaning-often without words?
All you have to do is show up and be yourself, and together we will learn performance techniques you can use to express your own experiences and ideas, whether it's for a live performance or the stage of life.
Everyone can develop skill, and this class celebrates participants of all levels of experience and talent-from those who have no prior experience of any kind, to those who may have a history in theater or other kind of performance.
Provided materials and experiential activities will help all participants build out and refine their personal tool kit or repertoire for expression. You will enhance your abilities to collaborate and communicate as part of the creative process, while also discovering and deepening a mastery over your personal performance language for expressing meaning.

Course Details: (seats remaining)

Schedule:

Every week on Saturday, starting on 01/23/27 and ending on 02/06/27

Times:

10:00am-01:00pm PST

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Price:

Class Price : $229.00

Instructors

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Avery Grace

Biography: Avery Grace (they/she/elle) is a life-long writer of all stripes--a poet-playwright, dramaturg, theater director, and more. An alumnus of both the Kennedy Center's Playwriting Intensive. Avery is particularly proud of the fact that they have been teaching for more than 20 years at this point, beginning with--and now continuing with--facilitating written creative expression with young people. Avery practices living into new futures by infusing liberatory creative performance and popular education practices into community spaces, and is endlessly and eternally moved by the power of our individual and community stories.

Facility Detail

COCC Pioneer Hall

PIO 0201

2600 NW College Way

Bend, OR 97703

Cancellation Policy

Students must cancel by contacting our office via phone: (541) 383-7270 or email: ceinfo@cocc.edu. Cancellations received 5 days prior to the start of the class will receive a full refund. Full refunds are also issued for classes cancelled by COCC. Refunds will be issued back to your card or in the form of a check and mailed within two weeks of the cancellation date if paid by check or cash. Failure to participate in a course or program does not result in a refund. Exceptions to the general refund policy are noted in the course descriptions on our website and in the printed schedule. If you have any questions, please call us at (541) 383-7270.